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1941 |
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CRIME
ROMANCE
COMEDY
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97 |
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A con-woman (Barbara Stanwyck, pictured right) tries to lure a young millionaire scientist (Henry Fonda, pictured left) to his financial doom, but instead they fall in love.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| One of writer-director's best known (and best reviewed) comedies, this is a witty, hard-edged romance which mainly stands the test of time. Much of the comedy which arises from the central relationship is funny, and Stanwyck is irresistible; Sturges was right to insist that she be allowed to play the part, despite Paramount's preference for Madeleine Carroll or Paulette Goddard. The two things which let it down are a weakish ending, and the fact (though some critics would dispute this) that Henry Fonda is not really cut out to be a slapstick comedian; all his physical comedy routines look contrived and awkward. A classic comedy of its period, it was remade, not very well, as a musical, The Birds and the Bees (1956). |
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, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
from Monckton Hoffe's story The Faithful Heart